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EEKLY APPEAL. A FAMILY NEWSPAPER -DEVOTED TO POLITICS, LOCAL INTERESTS, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC NEWS, AGRICULTURE, MECHANISM, EDUCATION- INDEPENDENT ON ALL SUBJECTS. VOLUME 1. WINCHESTER, TENN., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER C, 1850. NUMBER 30. THE WINCHESTER W THE VOICE OF AUTUMIS. BIT W. C. BRYANT. There comes, from yonder height. A soft, repining sound, Where forest leaves are bright, And fall like flakes of light To the g-ound. It is tho autumn breeze, That, lightly floating on, Just skims the weedy leas, Just stirs tho glowing treos, And is gone. lie moans by sedgy brook, And visits, with a sigh, Tho last pale flowers that look From out their suny nook, At the sky. O'er shouting children (lies That light October wind; And, kissing cheeks and eyes, Ho leaves their merry cries Far behind. And wanders on tomako That soft uneasy sound By distant wood and lake, Where distant fountains break From the ground. No bower whero maidens dwell Can win a moment's stay; Nor fair untrodden dell; lie sweeps tho upland swell, And away! Muurn'st thou thy homeless stale, Oh, soft repining wind! That eorly seek'6t, and late, The rest it is thy fate Not to find! Not on the mountain's breast, Not on the ocean shore, In all tho East and West, The wind that stops to'rest Is no more. By valleys, woods and springs, No wonder thou shouldst grieve For all the glorious things Thou touchest with thy wings And must leave. The First Honor is Duo Andrew J. Donclson for the Annexation of Texas. When in 1845, the hero of San Jacin to, Gen. Sam Houston, performed a pil grimage to the Hermitage to behold, (or the last time, the face of his ever warmly devoted friend, Gen. Andrew Jackson, lie arrived, hut to behold 'he lifeless casket that once contained one of the noblest souls that ever left its immortal impress upon the tides of time. Major Andrew J. Donelson being then nbsent on his mis sion to Texas, wr,ptc to Mrs. Donclson, not to fail to extend to Ccn. Houston and his family the most cordial hospitalities of his house, which Gen. Houston accept ed, spending some ten days at Tulip Grove At th.e doso of his visit, on tak ing leave of Mrs. Donclson, Gen. Hous ton said: "My doar madam, present this cane, from tho soil of Texas, to your husband, Maj. Donelson .inthe name ofSam Hous ton; on the head of it is engraved the Lone Star of Texas for to Major Donel son is duo the honor of bringing the Lone Star into tho bright constellation of this glorious Union." AN EYE WITNESS. This, in addition to the testimony of Gen. Jackson himself, and John C. Cal houn, and that of others already publish ed, we give to prove the first honor is due to Andrew J. Donelson for tho annexa tion of Texas to tho United States an Empire for tho South. Land Waiiiunts. Tho Washington Organ says: Notwithstanding the demand for Land Warrants continue, nniln limited, thern has occurred some improvement in prices since our last quotations. This improve ment is owing to the fact that there are ut lew warrants coming into market, country and distant dealers prcfering to hold them up for better prices. If this practice is generally adhered to, on the part of hohhrs of warrants, we may fairly calculate that prices will not rango much below ono dollar per acre at any time, )'et frequent fluctuations in the market "lay bo safely anticipated, nt least until the Western Land offices are opened for the public entry of warrants. Our dealers generally arc paying, to day, August 29th, tho following rates : Por 160's and 80's, 94 cts. per acre. For 120's 00 " " For 40's 103 , It is said that there aro more lies told in tho brief sentence "I am glad to see TouUhen in any other singlo sentence in tho English language. The Northern Democracy The Soulli Betrayed. Gov. Matthows, of Mississippi is re ported to have declared in his Baltimore spoech that tho sentiments of tho Democ racy North and South were the samo, in cluding of courso, tho sentiments of tho party on the slavery question. Well, the St. Louis Republican, a paper of Whig warp, and Sag-Nicht filling, has a report of a Democratic rally mooting in Ccntorville, Illinois, at which a great many things were said by a great many speakers. Now givo us your attention while wo make one, only one, dip into tho saltof tho Democratic rally. The re porter of the Republican thus sums up what was said: "Much good was done at this meeting to enlighten the masses, as to the intro duction of slavery in Kansas, which had been tvrongfully and wickedly urged by the Abolition orators on the people. All the speeches explained the principles of the Kansas Nebraska act of Congresss, and the Democratic platform, anil showed to the satisfaction of all present that tho Democratic party were not for the exteusion ofslavery more than Black Republicans. But the great principles of tUo Democratic party wcro freedom, permitting a man in Kansas to vote as a freeman on his domestic institutions. Did you ever see the like? These are tho Douglas Democrats talking in this way. Whero is Governor Matthews? Tho "Democratic party were not for the extension ofslavery more than the Black Republicans!" Do ye hear that, oh ye South? Trot Governor Matthews out, somebody, and hold that cup to his lips. If ho refuses to drink the worm-wood and that gall, pour it down the Democrat ic throat of the South? We quote from no Know Nothing paper. Wo quote from a Buchanan Southern paper a pa per that supports him on the ground and for tho reason that he is the best man for tho South. Don't give yourselves any unnecessary henvings, gentlemen. Don't make any wry faces. You must quaff that cup to tho bottom. Tho bile will come at last. That is the Douglas cup it cannot be passed from you. Can you not now see how the Kansas bill and the Cincinnati platform are understood and construed at the North? Just open your eyes ono moment and look. All the speeches not a few of them placed the Buchanan Douglas Democracy side by with the Black Republicans in opposi tion to tho extension of slavery. Not a soul said "Gentlemen, the South has rights under the Constitution that must be protected." Not in all the throng re ported to have covered that frcesoil, did one solitary voice lift up for the South. All struggled to place themselves, on the slavery question, side by side with the traitorous Black Republicans. What if thny did? Will not the Southern De mocracy laugh in their sleeves and wink at each other, and whisper "that is the lick anything to get Buchanan in?" Oh, betrayed and injured South! where is your ancient honor? where your Cal houn, and Troups, and Hayncs, and Mc Duffies? Dead crumbled to decay! Could they have stood inthe Black Hole of Cincinnati, and seen what transpired, heard what there was spoken, what could they have thought said? Imagine Cal houn there look at the lightning of that great globe of an eye! sco him, as he rises and flings the dust of that black hole, from his feet and garments! Dis gust and scorn gather upon his brow like a dreadful thunder-cloud. His proud heel stamps that unhallowed floor, and tho rotten rafters shako with the pulse of his indignation. People of the South! do you occupy a line paralell with the Elack Republicans of Illinois? Ah, do you? Speak from those honest hearts of yours. Thunder from every height of tho betrayed South, eternal war! war! against that Northern snake that crawls in the treacherous grass, with its fang sprung .and its body coiled for one last deadly leap. Rous;! rouse, for the sun of the South is setting and the knell of the Union is ringing! Memphis Eag. Enq. A Fillmore and Donelson Club was formed hero Saturday night last. Sever al ablo speeches wcro made, and great en thusiasm prevailed among the large crowd present. Carry on the good work keep tho ball in motion let the peoplo out in the country form clubs and meet as often as it ruay be deemed expelirnt. A Itewurd Cor Southern Democrats. In a speech recently delivered by John Van Buren, in New York, he offer ed a reward to any man Southern Dem ocrats included, of course, "to point to a line or sentence, in the Cincinnatti res olutions, which odvocutcs or encourages tho extension ofslavery to free territory." Certainly some of our koen eyed South ern Democrats can nccommodato, their frcesoil brother by pointing not nly to lines and sentences, but to whole para graphs. They have told the peoplo of the South it is a sound platform, and if theyliavo lold tho truth, they can easily produce the sentence and- claim llie re ward. Wo invite them to the task vvu wish to get John cornero 1 for once who will get the reward? J Ion r what John says: I cm awaro that some gentlemen with whom I formerly acted a few, as i trust see the matter in n different light. Like myself, they form their own convic tions, as they have a right to do, nnd net upon them'. They seem to suppose that sonic new Jule has been laid down, or sonic new principle avowed upon the subjoct ofslavery which calls upon them to quite the Democratic party. 1 see m such thins;. Entortainiri x similar senti ments, in sonic respects, with themselves, I yet see nothing in the proceedings of tho Cincinnatti Convention that calls up on me to quit the party in which I have been born and reared. Applause. I am told, in looking at the resolutions o.f that convention, they have been able 1 1 discover that they pledge the Democrat ic organzation to the extension of .slavery to freo territory. I have read these reso lutions carefully, nn I with what little in telligence 1 have been able to apply to them, lean find no such thing in them. I offer a reward, now, to any of those in telligent Republican gentlemen to point me not to an outrage in Ca.'isas., not to a sculllo in Washington, not to an im proper tpeech or an improper newspaper article but a lino or sentence in the Cincinnatti resolutions which advocates or encourages the extension of slavery to free territory. Applause. The following extract is from an udito rial in the Northern Standard, a frcesoil paper published at Keesvi'le, New York. Hear its objections to Fillmore, you Bitch ananitcs who so boldly show your disre gard for all moral law by calling Millard Fillmore an abolitionist : Why not advocate the claims of Mr. Fillmore on tho genuine American Plat form, and hold up j our beads like nun? Oh, howwe do hate these hang-dog looks, nnd this contemptible blarney of stiious ing, underground, sneaking politicians. Why, gentlemen, we could whip you blind now in nn American speech, and say more and better things in favor of Fillmore in one hour than you will be likely to pet out during the whole can vass. Fillmore has some good points, and it is a wonder that Ins blarneying ad vocates do not seo them. Wcro it not for his crimes against Freedom were it not for his cringing subservenry to the slave power were it not for his palsied tongue while liberty is bleeding were it not for the revengeful spirit manifested against Seward and his friends Fillmore, properly trained, might make a tolerably nice enndidato for tho Presidency. But he can't "come in" now, so that ends it. Now whack away, gentlemen, at Fremont. He's good for you. ' The Blessed Home. Home! To be home is tho wish ofsca men on stormy seas and lonely watch. Home is the wish ofthc soldier, and ten der visions mingle with the troubled, dreams of trench and tented field. Where tho palm tree waves its graceful plumes, and birds of jewelled lustre flash and flicker among gorgeous flowers, the exile sits staring upon the vacancy, a faraway homo lies on his heart; and borne on tho wings of fancy over intervening seas and lands, he has swept away home, and bean the lark singing above his father's fields, and sees his fair-haired boy brother, with light foot and childhood's glee, chasing tho buiteniy oy his native stream. And in his Kcst hours, home, his own sinless home, a home with his father above that starry sky, will bo the wish of everv Christian man. JIu looks around him tho world is full of suffering; he is dis tressed by liissnrows and voxe l with its sin. II! looks within him ho finds much in his own corrupiioii.s to grieve for. In the language of a heart repelled, griev ed, vexed, he ofien turns bis eye upwards, saying, 1 would nut live here always. No; not for all the gold of the wnr! I'.s mines not for nil the pleasure of h r flashing, I frothy cup not for all the crowns of her ; kingdoms would I live here always.' Like a bird about to emigrate to ;ho.o sunny lands whero no winter sheds her .snows, or strips the grove, or binds t!m j dancing strennis, ha will often in spirit bo tduinin; his wing for the hour of his jflicht glory. (iuthrir. i f. PLAIN TALK. Speaking of Buchanan, tho New Or leans Delia has tho following very plain language, which wo commend to our readers, taking into consideration the fact that tho Delta has heretofore boon the leading organ of the democracy in Louisiana : "He is not against slavery, says the South; ho is not with slavery, says the North; ho approves tho Kansas bill, pays Toombs; ho is for 'Squatter Sovereignty,' says Van Buren; consequently, cries uni versal Fngyisni in chorus, he is a "Na tional Man." It is clear, therefore, that a "National Man" means little more than a convenient Janus whose brazen and golden faces aro exactly of tho same or, in less classical but more ex prc.'.iive language, a chip in the porridge, to be stirred at the option of the office seekers, or permitted to rest. v hat reason have 1 to suppose (quoth the Sou th disconsolately) that I will ini- prove under Mr. Buchanan more than 1 did under Mr. Pierce? Will the advo cate of ', 'Squatter Sovereignty' extend my territory and strengthen my hands? Will he give me Cuba? Will ho understand the Central-American movement, and act accordingly? Will he penetrate the .Mexican puzzle? Ah me! I fear not. lie will view these tilings ns complacent ly as Mr. Pierce, though ho may not fall from the Presidential hor.se while the hard battle is being fought ; he will re gard them from the stand point of a 'National Man,' and it is painfully evi dent that from such a post of observation lie can see nothing but expediency. The two fac. s of Janiio cannot be knocked into o:if, even though tho eyes of the god are fixed on the Union as their polar Mar. Four eyes cannot work like two, an:! two may steer correctly according to the, star, (an overrated luminary in polit ical navigation, by the way,) while two are steering wroinr. 1 will vote for Buch anan. I will gain a little time to pre pare. 1 will thiiik honestly and fearless ly, and shake Old Fogyism as a night mare from my breast. Then, by the pride of my Iiou:-oho!d god.-! by the Lares and Penates of the South! 1 will go forth and act! - - - - - - The friends of Fillmore will, no doubt, remember that several of the undersign ed old lino whig.s have been represented by the Buchanan press as being "out and out" for tho Cincinnati nominee. Now when will the editors in the Buchanan party cease to publish what they know to bcfa'hc? From the Washington Organ. The Yi'Isi4 of It'::sseli;3seiis. We have alluded to the Circular put forth by prominent whigs of Massachu setts in favor of Mr. Fillmore. Wc re ceived to-day a copy of their letter in tho Boston Courier as follows: The undersigned, old-lino whigs of Massachusetts, while they have been thus far disposed to wait for the assemb ling of the Convention, which has been called by the State Central Connnitteo for n declaration of their purposes in re lation to the approaching Presidential election, yet, finding that advantage is taken ot llie delay to throw doubt on the views which they entertain, and to cre ate an impression that the only choice is between Mr. Buchanan and Mr. Fre mont, take this mode of signifying their decided preference for Mr. Fillmore over all the other candidates who have been nominated for the Presidency, and rec ommend him to the support of tho peo ple of Massachusetts. August 10, 1850. Edward Everett John E Thayer William Appleton R. C. Hooper Luther V. Bell Ignatius Surcnt Robt. C. Winthrop F. M. Weld" Nathan Appleton Samuel A. Eliot Thomas Aspin wall Patrick Grant George Lunt F. Skinner George S. Hillaid Charles P. Curtis William Aspinwall Samuel F. Coolidge Thomas B. Curtis Thomas B. Wales Frederick Tudor Robert Hooper J. W. Paige Francis Bacon P. C. Brooks William Foster Josiah Bradlco R. B. Forbes George T. Lyman James W. Sever B. T. Reed William Sturgis Win. C. Rives, Jr. A.T.Hall James K. Mills William Amory Snm'I Frothingham James S. Amory O.ia.s Goodwin John Revere i An 1 many others of equal importance. All who are familiar with the leading i men ol Boston will perceive that the ; above li.-t comprises a laigo portion of the leading merchants, manufacturers, a. id capitalists of that city emphatically I the "solid men of Boston" men of hiudi ! social position and closely indentificd ! with every measure which lias elevated Massachusetts in the scale of physical ' development and moral worth. "1 h.td rather be right than President." Millard Fillmore, WOMAN. nv a ma nt: ikd man. No star in yonder sky that shines Can light like woman's eye impart, The earth holds m t in all its mines A gem so rich as woman's heart. Her voice is liko tho music sweet Pou red out from airy harp alone; Liko that, when storms more loudly beat, It yields a clearer, richer tone. A womm's love's a holy light, 'flint brighter, brighter burns fornye; Yours cannot dim its radiance bright, Nor even falsehood quench its ray. Cut, like the stnr of Bethlehem Ofe-ld, to Israel's shephard jriven, It marshals with its steady flame Tho erring soul of man to Heaven! A M.vmrx's 1'insT Lovk. Human nature has no essence more pure the world knows runhins more chaste hea ven has endowed the mortal heart with no feelinsr more holy, than the nascent affection of a young virgin's soul. The wannest language of the sunny south is too cold to shadow forth even a faint out line of that enthusiastic sentiment. And i ii i.i i .i (ion nas made mo nenest language poor in that same respect, because the depths ol hearts that thml with love s emotions . . i r i . i . i are loo sacreu mr contemplation. llie musical voice of love stirs the source of the sweetest thotiuht within the human breast, and steals into the mo.-.t profound i . i i i . . recesses oi uie soui, touching cords which never vibrated before, and call in 2 into gentle companionship delicious hopes tin then unknown. Yes, the fisdit of a young maiden's love breaks dimly but beautifully upon herns the silver lustre of u star glim mers through a thickly woven bowei, and the first blush that mantles Ii or check, as she feels the primal influence, is faint and pure as that which a ro.se leaf might cast upon marble. But how rapid I v does that grow stronger, and that (lush deeper until the powerful effulgence of the one irradiates everv comer of her heart, nd the crimson glow of the other suffu ses everv feature of her countenance. Listen. We want to give some certain folks, whom we know, a little advice, for which wc shall not charge them a cent, only hoping that they may be vi;-e enough to take a hint an I prof.t by what they read: Don't go about running down what people of sense and honesty approve. Don't abuse your neighbor all week nnd put on a long face when you go to church on Sunday. Don't allow others to lead you about by the nose and call yourself a freeman. Don't listen to abuse heaped upon one whom you call a friend. Don't borrow a paper which is not worth paying for. Don't set yourself ii) '.for a great man before you find out w hether you contain the elements for one. Don't t!i i til; for a moment that an edi tor a rrs ir'iftt tios'c who have nn mimls of their (cn think of his paper. The two men who now are best abused and blackguarded by the Republican and Know Nothing press, for their politcal course, are J. Scott Harrison, the son of the "hero of Tippecanoe," and James B. Clay, the son of tho" Sage of Ashland, because they have determined to vote the national Democratic ticket in order to save the Union. Union and American, The Union and American claims Hon. J. Scott Harrison as a supporter of Buchanan. This is but a samplo of the systematic falsehoods which the Sag Nichl dress throughout the country has adopted, in the hope of bolstering up the declining fortunes of "old squatter sovcr eign." Mr. Harrison is an ardent Fillmoro man and is arrayed in direct hostility lo both tho Buchanan and Fremont parties and battling bravely for Fillmore in Ohio The Union and American endorses his nationality but claims his support. It is right in one particular and knowingly wrong in claiming him as a Buchanan man. Washington Organ. Come Kiss Me. This is the name that should be given to tho fashionable mod em bonnet, which lightly resting on the back of the head, affords no protection of n pretty lace but on the contrary, in creases the attractions which, under any circumstance, invito tho stamp of kindness an I affection ! How different from tho odious "poke bonnet," used five and twenty years ago, which formed a Erojecting lino of circunivailation around ewitching features a chtraux dc frist which the most ardent and presumptions admirer of beauty would hardly attempt to pass when even To mulcrt iki? t!in pleasing proeei. Required a:i c!',h'nt' prob-wen. Letter to the IV. O. Deltii. SvLLAuodOA, Tnllcdega Co., Ala.i Aug. 5, 1850. Eds, Delta; Wc have long been a subscriber to your paper, and if we have ever been of any other poli tics than that of the Delta, wedon't knowA it. The names of Jackson, Calhoun and Clay fall with reverence upon our ear with sorrow we mourn their loss, and wish their places filled, though a retrospec tive view is not the object of correspond' enco. Yesterday Monday was our sheriff's election. There was little or no excite ment. The Democrats elected their can didate by a small majority. Had tho election come off tho first Monday in Ju ly, their majority would have exceeded five hundred! The cause of this differ ence is attributable to tho great change produced by the Presidential canvass. Buchanan is declining daily, while Fill more is rising rapidly. Never has there been such achnngoin the politics of our country since the time of my rccollec lion. I have conversed with several old Jack son and Pierce Democrats, ami they tell me that they think Buchanan can never carry the State by more than five thou sand majority, if he carries it at all. Should this statement meet with your endorsement, please give it a place in your paper, and oblige AN OLD SUBSCRIBER. Fillmore in Fennsijlninin. A well informed and reliable gentleman from Pennsylvania, who tarried last night nt Wallace's Hotel, says: "Two weeks ago I could count but five Fillmore men in Brownsville, but in the past week, forty of my neighbors avow themselves as Fillmore men and support him enthusiastically." This gentleman was formerly a demo crat of the strictest school, hut mpw goes for Fillmore. We say, in candor, ilnu webcliivo Millard Fillmare will get the twenty -seven electoral votes cd" Penn sylvania; and our belief is founded on the unpopularity of Buchanan with the laboring masses, and with the whigs us the tradueer of Clay, and the acknowl- edged conservatism oi noui miinore and Donel.'on. These fa. ts are working in Penri s v 1 v a n i a . A m t r lea :i I. 'n ton. Kent a el; ii American State Council. - Hon. Thomas II. Clay, of Fayette, the '.ddc-t and favorite sou of the "Sage of Ashland," was unanimously elected President of the American State Council of Kentucky, on Wednesday last, in tho place ofMaj. E. B. BorleU, whodeclined a re-e!ectien on account of his duties as President ofih'e National Cov.ncil. The Way Ik Runs. An attempt was made to form a Fillmore Club in. Pitts burg, a few days since, and to begin with, 1000 names were enrolled4. Rather a good beginning, thati ' A Sag-Nicht organ in Pennsylvania says that "the democrats consider them selves, in the present political campaign, as doing not only a political but a sol emn religious duty." Oh yes, and we presume, that, at the close of tho proceedings of all their meetings, they fervently exclaim in heart, -'Lot us prey." , Another Press fur Fillmore. The Hudson County N. J. Courier, publish ed in Jersey City, has run up the Fill more flag. The Fillmore feeling in New Jersey is evidently on the increase. Within a short time three leading jour nals, namely, the Trenton State Gazette the Salem Standard and the Hudson County Couier, have all declared them selves for Fillmore, the Constitution and tho Union. These indications are quite significant. The Somerset Pa. Whig has run up the Fillmore flag. Tho editor, in allusion to the fact, says: "Wc do this at the ur gent instance and request of numerous parly friends, and in acccr.bjnce with what we believe to be the largely prevail ing sentiment ofthc country." The Hon. Mr. Goode, ono of ihc Demo cratic Electors of Virginia, says he is no longer acting with the Democracy. He is an old-line Whig, and, being opposed to some of the features of the American op ganization, he has acted wilh the Democ racy. But having been in Co.igress with Buchanan, and knowing that ho cannot be trusted on the question of slavery, whilst, from his serving wi:h Mr. Fill more, and his action while President, ho knows Mr. F. can bo relied upt n, lm therefore cocs for Fi'lmc te. A hopeful rhpistcr thin discourses of his love an I a dog t f hcr'n He is jeaL ous: When Tcfy's arm her Jo; iin;rijii. I oi'tcn wished my lot wa his'n; How oil would Inland and lurn. Hud get a pat from liaiiJj like lier'u. G 9.l o )kj aro good compiiib.i. Always try to keep thuir ro.npsuiv.